Buyer (Manufacturing)

Your Job

As a Buyer, you are responsible for executing purchases—be it components or raw materials. You'll collaborate with the Global Procurement team to establish and maintain supplier relationships, ensuring the timely acquisition of necessary parts and materials. This involves coordinating with Quality Assurance to address supplier quality issues, effectively managing inventory levels to prevent production delays, and continuously monitoring supplier performance.

Our Team

You will be reporting to Purchasing Supervisor.

What You Will Do

• Analyze Purchase Requisitions, utilizing forecasts and historical data, seeking clarification on any ambiguities from the Planner, and suggesting viable alternatives.
• Coordinate with suppliers to schedule deliveries in alignment with production orders, partnering with planners to guarantee timely factory supply.
• Issue Purchase Orders after confirming supplier capabilities, product specifications, and price accuracy; secure authorization for deviations in price or product specifications when necessary.
• Assist the Global Procurement Team with supplier price negotiations.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance staff to address any concerns regarding deliveries or product quality and manage the return and replacement of unacceptable parts (RGA).
• Assess supplier performance, contributing to the Supplier Score Card with your feedback.
• Control inventory by synchronizing forecast data with planners, adjusting safety stock levels, applying Just-In-Time (JIT) restocking methods, and determining the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ).
• Negotiate supplier cancellation requests based on SAP exceptional reports to reduce liabilities and prevent surplus stock occurrences.
• Pinpoint cost-saving opportunities and communicate these to the Procurement Team for further negotiation with suppliers.
• Adhere to the Molex Procurement Policy and EHS protocols.
• In the event of a supply shortage, assume full responsibility for allocating resources between subcontractors & Molex to optimize company benefits.
• Other duties as assigned by Management.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Possess a GCE ‘A’ level, Diploma, or higher.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated organizational and communication prowess.
• Ability to independently resolve issues and drive performance metrics.
• Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel.
• An understanding of logistics terms and economic principles.

What Will Put You Ahead

• In-depth knowledge of purchasing processes.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment with expertise in purchasing and procurement.
• Familiarity with SAP and supplier management systems.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.